Job Description:

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) is looking for a freelance copy editor with at least 15 years of experience editing long, fairly technical research reports. We will offer you a steady stream of contract assignments if you meet our requirements.

We’d like to find someone who knows the 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style backwards and forwards and who is good at cross-checking technical data. You should also be expert in editing not only for grammar and style but also for clarity, brevity, and readability. You must have at least a Bachelor’s degree (Ph.D. preferred) and at least 15 years of solid copyediting and substantive editing experience. You should be proficient with Word 2013, or 2011 for Mac.